Monday, May 4, 2009

I RUV You

This hearty little piece of goodness has been hanging on my workroom door for a few weeks now. I've just been too selfish to share it yet, is all. I had an all-over good and happy feeling sewing up this piece of red love.

*sigh*

that photo shows the bag turned inside out so you can see that even the inside pockets match marvelously.

Under the flap, you get these two pockets. I like one for my keys and one for my phone; even though I never remember to charge or answer the darned thing.

I love all your bags but the last few are really extra special. I really love what you doing with the buttons. I see them and think how much fun they were to play with and just to look at in the jar, and then I when I see what you are doing with them I think of that proverb about sowing (sewing?) seeds in fertile ground, and feel all warm, fuzzy and philisophical and just a little more hopeful for ourselves and the rest of the world. Valerie C

I love it!!$48.Joyce, I am coveting the theoretical bags you may make in the future out of some blue leather from a special coat you now have, and I was going to hold out till then, but I can't resist.Those buttons are the best! <3 Melodie

P.S. Thanks to you, I know that <3 is a heart, as a math teacher I automatically think "less than 3"

holy rocka-notey, I can't believe that I just had an early morning bid-out! Yahoo! That helps to restore my confidence in this crazy bag project. I'd have to say that Becky gets the bag with her very noteable SEVEN AM there. Congrats! let me just say that sewing that bag was such a joy that I must spur myself on to sewing something that much fun again.

And Valerie. I'm so sorry. Yours was the name that got forgotten when i rambled on about buttons the other day. I knew it was someone important. You AND YOUR MOTHER's! And that coat! (must get special needle..... must get special needle....)

About Me

lives in her head, making the simplest things complex; is drawn to the oddest things, thinks in swirly and coloured bits, fears numbers,(the numerical variety, not the book) thinks Jesus had an excellent viewpoint, rarely remembers to de-hair or apply cosmetics, loves critters, and there's more. Much more.

My Etsy Shop!

About The Bags

I've always been a scrounger. Raised by a frugal prairie farm woman who reduced, reused, and recycled long, looooong before it was trendy; I've come into the concept of re-purposing honestly. I am silly-in-love with anything vintage-ish, and am powerless against it when I discover it stacked on card tables in someone's garage, or stale and lonely in a thrift shop.

* Most of the thrift shops are themselves humanitarian aid fund raisers.

*while keeping this stuff out of the landfills, you get to enjoy little pieces of history. Fabrics that used to function as tableclothes, aprons, bedspreads, sheet sets, coats.... Well, you get the idea.

*the proceeds of the project are intended for food aid to people in camps in and around the Sudan via the United Nations World Food Programme.

The bags are distributed in "good faith"; the fabrics within each piece can not be warranteed due to their unknown fiber contents. I myself treat my bags with little caution- throwing them in the wash, hanging them on the line to dry. I cannot offer any guarantees though, and do not offer refunds or returns; although I am certainly willing to do reasonable repairs. Although in a sense one is purchasing a bag, the bigger vision is to partner in feeding the hungry.

Interested in supporting the project? Visit my ETSY shop, top of the page. E-mail me with any question at re(dash)joyce(at)live.ca

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